Cloudera Enterprise 5.9 includes the latest release of Hue (3.11), the web UI that makes Apache Hadoop easier to use.

As part of Cloudera’s continuing investments in user experience and productivity, Cloudera Enterprise 5.9 includes a new release of Hue. Hue continues its focus on SQL and also now makes your interaction with the Cloud easier (Amazon S3 specifically in this first version). We’ll provide a summary of the main improvements in the following part of this blog post. (Hue 3.11 is also available for a quick try in one click on demo.gethue.com.)

S3 Browser

Hue can be setup to read and write to a configured S3 account, and users can directly query from and save data to S3 without any intermediate moving/copying to HDFS:

SQL Autocompleter

Continuing on the focus of making the SQL query experience better we’ve created a brand new autocompleter. The old one had some limitations and was only aware of parts of the statement being edited. The new autocompleter knows all the ins and outs of the Hive and Impala SQL dialects and will suggest keywords, functions, columns, tables, databases, etc. based on the structure of the statement and the position of the cursor.

Security

Recently we have added many security options in HUE. These are turned on by default when possible.

These improvements enables Hue administrators to enforce and manage secure HUE installation. For example, by using the strict-transport-security you can force the browser to communicate solely over HTTPS. Other features include supports for Wildcard certificates, delivering csrftoken and session cookies with secure bit set and security headers like X-XSS-Protection and Content-Security-Policy.